All articles by Kester Rattenbury – Page 2

  • Louise Bourgeois’ The Red Room, (Child), 1994, demonstrates how we see spaces as meaningful
    Review

    Hue and cry

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    The crowd-pullers at the Barbican’s After Klein show disappoint, but it is the less familiar that add the real colour

  • S333 pushed the size of the building to the limit with a variety of design options.
    News

    New kids on the block

    2005-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Urban Salon has won the Bermondsey Square housing competition. But with all the shortlisted schemes producing innovative housing solutions, it’s a pity all three can’t be built

  • Iconic meaning — Disney Concert Hall as Marilyn Monroe’s skirt.
    Review

    Metaphor writ large

    2005-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Kester Rattenbury talks to Charles Jencks about his provocative new book on iconic buildings

  • Suited and booted: Dean's sister's godfather, known as "Boots", in the Casa Serralves in Portugal.
    Review

    Found in translation

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Kester Rattenbury is enthralled by Tacita Dean’s three films exploring a Portuguese villa

  • The main Seattle library entrance at Fourth Avenue and Madison Street.
    Building Study

    Toying with Uncle Sam

    2004-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas designs a public library in Seattle and an exclusive Prada shop in Beverly Hills. Both play with ideas of public space, he says. Can he be serious? Kester Rattenbury finds out